Improvement in broadcast-sowers



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PATENT LEWIS GOLLEB,1OF

ZFLINT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROADC AST- SOWERS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

190,284, dated May 1, 1877; application tiled March 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, LEWIS OOLLER, of Flint, in the county of Genesee andState of Michigan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inMachines for Sowing Broadcast and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

' Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation of mymachine, and Fig. 2 is an end View thereof. Fig. 3 is a Fig. 4 is atransverse vertical sectional view of the Fig. 7 is a perspective view,part sectional, of a modification; and Fig. 8 is a detail View thereof.

This invention relates to devices for sowing seeds or fertilizer; and itconsists in the construction and arrangement of the parts hereinafterset forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A designates a seed-box adapted to becarried upon a vehicle, and provided with a hinged cover, A. The sidesof said box taper inward and downward, and its bottom is closed by ametal plate, B, having a number of openings, b. Said openings may bepartly or wholly closed, at will, by means of a slide, 0, which isworked longitudinally by means of a lever, D, pivoted to one of thesides of said seedbox. Said out-off slide is provided with a rigidsidewise extension, 0, and the lower end of said lever is attachedthereto by a slot-and-pin connection. The said lever is provided with afixed dog or catch, d, which engages with a toothed rack, d, fixed tosaid seed-box, whereby said slide 0 can be locked in any positiondesired.

Under said slide is a scatter-board, E, hinged to the bottom of saidbox.' Said scatter-board may be adjusted toward or from the bottom ofsaid box, so as to vary both its inclination and opening, by means ofmetal straps F F, which are arranged at each end of the device, andprovided with T-shaped or tapering slots f f, that engage with headedstuds or pins f f on said scatter-board and seed-box.

In the ends of said box, near the bottom thereof, is journaled a shaft,Gr, carrying obliquelyarranged stirringdisks H, corresponding in numberto the openings I). Said disks stir up the seed and sweep it into saidopenings. They are aided in this by blocks I, having curved inclinedinner faces, which are set in the bottom of said seed-box, on each sideof the line of said openings. Shaft G is provided outside of said boxwith a pulley, G, whereby it receives motion from one of thetransporting wheels of the vehicle, or from some other suitable motor.devices are used for sowing fertilizers the said disks H pulverize thesame, and thereby reduce it to better condition for advantageousapplication to the soil.

When the seeding devices abovedescribed are attached .to a horse-rake orcultivator, being hungunder the thills and cross-bars, a hinged coverlike A could not be opened. In such cases I therefore substitute forsuch a cover a sliding cover, J. (Shown in detail in Fig. 8.) Said coverJ is provided near each end with a bent arm, K, that has a lateral stud,It, which works in a guideway, L, formed by flanges 1 Ion the inner sideof each end piece or head of said seed-box. The rear end of saidguideway is inclined upward, and the lower end of arm K is rounded, soas to turn in a rounded recess, 1 formed in the inside of the rear pieceof said seed-box at the end of said guideway. The said parts 70 P, ateach end of said box, serve as hinges for said cover to be turned downbackward behind the same when the said box is opened. The heads or endsof said box should be made of metal. When said cover is moved forward toclose the said seed-box the said guideway draws it tightly down upon thesame. Said guideway prevents said cover at all times from separatingfrom said box. The frontpiece of said box is recessed from the topdownward at Z to allow the removal of said cover.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

When said The combination of seed -box A, having hereunto subscribed myname in the presence guideways L, upwardly inclined at the rear, of twowitnesses. and recess P, with a sliding cover, J, having arm K, roundedat its lower end, and LEWIS COLLER. stud is, substantially as and forthe purpose Witnesses:

set forth. HENRY G. VAN DEUSEN,

In testimony that I claim the above I have A. W. CLARK.

